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Friday, 30 January 2015

Raif Badawi

The next 50 lashes of blogger Raif Badawi have been postponed for the second week running. Last week a doctor decided that Raif was unfit to be flogged. Today no reason was given for the second postponement. His wife hopes that the new Saudi King Salman will pardon him. There has been international condemnation of the Saudi's implementation of brutal Sharia Law, with protests outside Saudi embassies (CLICK)